Tag: kids
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Slow Cooker Sunday: Sloppy Joes – 24 June 2012
Slow Cooker Sunday has had a bit of a break, but we’re back and raring to go. My daughter normally eats with her child minder for the better part of the week, but recently it’s been school holidays, so I had to think of things that we all would eat. So, as I often do,…
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Didn’t your mother ever tell you you’ll go blind…..
I went to an event a while back; while I was there I lent my Ipad to one of the mum’s daughters to keep her occupied as it’s full to the brim with educational apps. Another mother, who wasn’t meddling or being judgmental, asked me if I worried about the affect it had on children’s…
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What the h*ll is Geocaching?
The best way I can describe it is an outdoor treasure hunt using GPS. You download an app onto your phone, which is £6.99 from the iTunes Store but the rest is free. Then you navigate to the location of the cache (container) and hopefully find it. Inside the container, depending on the size as…
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I’m tired of tidying up her room!
My 4 year old daughter is really into dressing up at the moment. So, I bought her a basket to store all her costumes in. However, every time she wanted something this is what happened. So in the end, I had one of these made. What do you think? I originally came across it on…
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Bucket list for Kids: Fifty things to do before you’re 11 ¾
I really liked this list published by the National Trust, except for the addition of the health and safety bits which annoyed me and contradicted the entire article. However, the article made me rather nostalgic, thinking back to when I was growing up in Canada in the great outdoors. We were chucked out the…